Led by the efforts of a Rsian ic book rear, a small group of fans is petng DC Comics to make The Joker gay 'aga'.
Contents:
- IS THE JOKER GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
- IS THE JOKER GAY??? (SER QUTN)
- DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'
- HAS THE JOKER BEEN SHOVED IN THE CLOSET? THIS PETN AIMS TO MAKE HIM GAY
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
IS THE JOKER GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * gay joker batman *
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. Whether 's the psycho-sexual relatnship between Batman and his nemis the Joker, the flamboyant mp of Jim Carrey's Riddler, or the bisexual wil of Catwoman, Batman is famo for beatg up queer-d what would happen if they started actually stg gay, bisexual, and queer actors as the villas though? As long as villas are gog to be d as queer, we want them to be played by actual gay, bi, and queer actors.
A petn on started by Elena Shtakova lls for DC Entertament to "Make The Joker Gay Aga, " pactg the long-nng speculatn about the DC villa's sexualy to a clear ll to actn. "The Joker is a character wh almost 80 years [of] history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual, " Shtakova stat.
"Neal Adams claimed that the Joker was and always had been homosexual [.. That is why 's so important to me and other queer rears to return his homosexualy. Takg the character's entire history to acunt, different readgs uld eher see a troubled portra of a closeted gay man feigng an tert heterosexualy, or someone who is openly bisexual, pansexual or sexually fluid.
IS THE JOKER GAY??? (SER QUTN)
His pulsn to Joker-fy his victims also feeds the homophobic myth of a gay nversn agenda. Frank Miller once summarized the Joker and Batman has a "homophobic nightmare.
" But "beg queer don't make someone a bad person, " Shtakova pots out, "therefore, fictnal characters don't need to be good and righteo to be gay.
DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'
There's no reason that the historil subtext of a gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer or asexual Joker n't be brought back to the surface a siar, unmistakable way. We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch.
As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self. The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story.
HAS THE JOKER BEEN SHOVED IN THE CLOSET? THIS PETN AIMS TO MAKE HIM GAY
She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.